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I’m low key pretty concerned about Mamdani’s safety - between (essentially official, government-supported) expressions of stochastic terrorism, to weaponization of immigration law and enforcement, to straight up assassination attempts by far right wing-nuts, I will honestly be very pleasantly surprised if he makes it to the election without someone trying something pretty serious.

And to be clear, I do hope he makes it to the election, and wins, and that his term as mayor makes it blindingly obvious to the vast majority of people that Mamdani’s tactics are the clear way forward. I’m also just fully aware that we’re in the “kicking and screaming” phase with reactionaries, and that those same people are running shit now.

By this point, the world is like that, eagerly watching if the guy can upset such a corrupt, biased system.

So he will definitely be the democratic nominee, right? And now he's going against a republican in the general election? When is it?

35 percent do. I am mildly worried what happens with ranked choice voting and all the idiots that are voting for the rest of the losers. It's not like the Democratic primary where basically all the "no chance" rank 1 people were gonna put Mamdani as their second or third choice.

Yes. But unironically. We finally found out what it would have been like if Bernie has won the primary. The Dems would have thrown everything at him losing the general. Probably calling him antisemitic along the way.

It looks bleak. I try to remember that general despair and lack of faith in elections is exactly the aim of many propagandists, and that apathy only serves the aims of those who would destroy us.

It's hard sometimes because of the difficult past the US has had. Anyone trying to undermine America often need not even lie, but they do need to convince you that it's hopeless, and that change is impossible. I see no reason to oblige them.

Trump can't take NYC. Even a military/ICE takeover is off the table. Even with a 20x increase in the ICE budget. There are just too many people and not enough random masked ICE "agents".

Just like with tariff negotiations, Trump thinks he has all the cards when he doesn't. He wants you to think he does, though. Fascism is always weaker than it looks.

They'll let him be Mayor. They won't let him do anything, though.

I think the issue is a single congressperson can't show people that it works. A mayor can, and that's their biggest fear. If people learn how good it is for them they may actually start supporting it, instead of being scared like they've been told to believe by the wealthy who control the media.

They all do

FPtP, so highest vote getter.

Plurality.

This time the Democrats have an actual flesh and blood candidate who actually stands for something. If he wins, will that alter your perspective at all?

American voters suck, just like they have always sucked, just like voters suck everyplace else. That's the field in which the game is played.

Being the lesser of two evils is not a good strategy. The greater evil gets all the attention and therefore enthusiasm. Good vs evil is a whole different dynamic.